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| |age= | | |age= |
| |colony= Falsely claimed to be from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aerelon|Aerelon]] (by way of [[Troy]]) | | |colony= |
| |birthname= | | |birthname= |
| |servicen= T-990429 | | |servicen= |
| |callsign= Boomer | | |callsign= |
| |death= [[Resistance]] (''Galactica'' Valerii), another copy killed on Caprica ([[Colonial Day]]) | | |death= |
| |parents= Falsified: [[Abraham Valerii]] (deceased, father), [[Catherine Valerii]] (deceased, mother) | | |parents= |
| |siblings= | | |siblings= |
| |children= 1 Pending ("Caprica" Valerii's unborn daughter) | | |children= |
| |marital status= Single (''Galactica'' Valerii); In a relationship with Lt. [[Karl Agathon]] (''Caprica'' Valerii). | | |marital status= |
| |role= Cylon Infiltrator, Saboteur; [[Raptor]] Pilot (''Galactica'' Valerii) | | |role= |
| |rank= Lieutenant, Junior Grade (''Galactica'' Valerii) | | |rank= |
| |actor= [[Grace Park]] | | |actor= [[Grace Park]] |
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| == ''Galactica'' Copy == | | == ''Galactica'' Copy == |
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| Lieutenant Junior Grade Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, serial number T-990429, appears to be a young pilot recently-assigned to shipboard operations. Assigned to flying the Raptor reconnaissance vehicle, her inexperience is demonstrated through repeated rough landings aboard ''Galactica'' ([[Miniseries]]).
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| [[Image:bsg-valerii-1.jpg|thumb|left|The Many Sides of "Sharon Valerii" (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]] | | [[Image:bsg-valerii-1.jpg|thumb|left|The Many Sides of "Sharon Valerii" (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]] |
| As a pilot, she is assigned alongside [[ECO]] [[Karl Agathon|Karl "Helo" Agathon]], with whom she has developed a close friendship. She has also formed friendships with other pilot officers aboard the battlestar, sharing off-duty activities, such as regular card games ([[Miniseries]], [[Act of Contrition]]), all of which have helped her integrate into shipboard life and be accepted as a member of the crew. She had been serving on board ''Galactica'' for two years prior to the Cylon attack ([[The Farm]]).
| | ''See the article [[Sharon Valerii (Galactica copy)]]'' |
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| === Agent in Disguise ===
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| Initially, "Boomer" Valerii is a "sleeper" agent, unaware of her Cylon status. As far as she is aware, she was born on the mining colony of Troy, the daughter of a family from Aerelon ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Troy itself was destroyed in an unexplained cataclysm, allowing Boomer's background to be established as that of an orphan.
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| Following her arrival on-board ''Galactica'', she enters into a relationship with the ship's Chief Petty Officer [[Galen Tyrol]], which is against military protocols concerning fraternization between officers and non-officers. Whether this is unintentional, or a subconcious reaction to her Cylon personality program is unclear.
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| At the time of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Boomer is flying her Raptor to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] with ''[[Galactica]]'s'' last remaining operational [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] squadron to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] when they learn of the attacks and attempt to engage two [[Cylon Raider]]s. However, the Viper squadron is destroyed (their ships powered down by their tainted [[CNP]]), and the Raptor is damaged while trying to escape, forcing Boomer and Helo to make an emergency landing on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]].
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| With the Raptor repaired, they are mobbed by desperate civilians, where then Helo and Boomer undertake an unexpected rescue operation, lifting a number of children and adults from the planet. However, Helo chooses to give up his place aboard the Raptor so that Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] can be rescued ([[Miniseries]]).
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| After being found by [[Laura Roslin]]'s group of stranded military and civilian ships, Boomer works hard within the new civilian [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], assisting Laura Roslin's attempts to gather other stranded civilian ships within the space surrounding Caprica as possible. She finds a number of ships critical to the fledgling Fleet's survival (such as a fuel tanker). After the Fleet (with ''Galactica'' leading it) leaves the solar system of the Colonies, Boomer aids in other critical acts, such as the discovery of a [[tylium]]-rich asteroid, replete with an active Cylon mine ([[The Hand of God]]), and locating a source of water to replenish the Fleet's lost supply after a sabotage of ''Galactica's'' stores ([[Water]]).
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| === The Sleeper Awakens ===
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| However, at the same time she is apparently supporting the Fleet, Boomer's underlying Cylon programming periodically emerges. Her Cylon programming is the cause of the sabotage ''Galactica's'' water tanks ([[Water]]). Later, she likely assists a copy of [[Aaron Doral]] to access to a munitions store. The Doral copy constructs a suicide bomb which very nearly kills [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]].
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| Having "awoken" to her human personality shortly after the bombs used to destroy ''Galactica's'' water tanks were planted, she finds herself soaking wet. Boomer's human personality becomes increasingly concerned that she is not all she appears. Her worry increases when she experiences a certain "attraction" to a captured [[Cylon Raider]], and is able to give insight into how it can be properly assessed and understood ("[[Six Degrees of Separation]]", "[[Flesh and Bone]]"). Her concerns are further elevated when, following the bombing by Doral, ''Galactica's'' [[Master-at-Arms]], Sergeant [[Hadrian]] suspects her and Tyrol of Cylon complicity ([[Litmus]]).
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| Isolated from Tyrol following this event, he later ends their relationship following the arrest of Specialist [[Socinus]] ([[Litmus]]). Facing Tyrol's own suspicions concerning her activities immediately before the bombing, Boomer finds herself emotionally isolated and stressed. She takes the Cylon detector test created by Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]]. Baltar hides the positive test results to cover himself from recrimination from other Cylon agents and lies to the young lieutenant ([[Flesh and Bone]]). Boomer finds short solace in his test results but deals with increasing anonymous accusations from others when she finds the word "CYLON" written on the mirror of her locker ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]).
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| Frightened and isolated, Boomer withdraws into herself and attempts suicide, but finds herself initially unable to do so. During her second attempt, she is interrupted by Dr. Baltar who, rather than discouraging her, essentially gives her his blessing on her attempt. Following his departure from the bunkroom, Boomer succeeds in shooting herself, but her Cylon personality apparently interrupts the attempt. Boomer can only severely wound herself in the face ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]).
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| === Boomer's Dark Discovery and Demise ===
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| After [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] absconds with the captured Raider intended for an attack on a basestar orbiting [[Kobol]], Commander Adama orders Boomer and ECO [[Margaret Edmonson|Racetrack]] to use an [[Cylon Transponder]] in their Raptor to infiltrate the basestar place a nuclear warhead within to destroy it. The mission is a success. However, when the weapon would not auto-release from the Raptor after landing, Boomer exits the ship and into the expanse of the basestar's interior, where she encounters a dozen copies of herself, confirming her worse fears. Boomer escapes in the Raptor while her copies caress the weapon just before it detonates and destroys the basestar. Back on ''Galactica'', her encounter with her copies on the basestar apparently forces Boomer's Cylon personality to emerge once more, with astonishing reprocussions: on accepting hanks from Commander Adama for the mission, she shoots and seriously wounds him ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).
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| Boomer is quickly restrained by guards and jailed in the [[brig]]. During her emprisonment, Tigh attempts to forcibly extract information from her by gunpoint. Sharon's human and Cylon personalities appear to stonewall him ([[Scattered]]). Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] is later thrown in the same brig cell by Col. Tigh, also suspected of being a Cylon. While imprisoned together, Boomer tries to convince Tyrol that her feelings for him were real and important, but he rejects her and threatens to kill her if she touched him.
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| Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] later enters the cell, austensibly to collect a blood sample from Tyrol to prove his innocence using the [[Cylon detector]], but instead Baltar injects Tyrol with a potent toxin that would kill him in a matter of seconds if Baltar doesn't give him an antidote. Baltar interrogates Sharon, demanding to know how many other Cylons were in the Fleet, using the dying Tyrol to blackmail her. Boomer, near hysterics, protests that she didn't know. Baltar insists that somewhere in her subconscious mind, underneath all of her programming and false memories, she truly ''does'' know and with a stressful enough stimulus, the information would come forward. At the last second, she cries out that there were eight other Cylons in the Fleet. Baltar revives Tyrol.
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| Soon after, while being transferred to a new reinforced cell in the [[brig]] built to hold Cylons for later experiments, a large crowd of crewmembers jeers at her and calls her a traitor. An enraged [[Cally]] breaks through the crowd holding a gun and shoots Boomer at point blank range. Dying in Tyrol's arms, her last words were "I love you, Chief" ([[Resistance]]).
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| Boomer's body is sent to the morgue, and autopsied. The recovered [[William Adama|Commander Adama]] visits her corpse, asking "Why?" aloud, and weeps over her body. Commander Adama gives Cally a slap on the wrist by sentencing her to only 30 days in the brig for discharging a weapon without authorization. Cally is never tried for murder since Boomer was merely yet another enemy Cylon to be destroyed ([[The Farm]]).
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| {{spoiltext|According to an [http://www.thefandom.com/Article50.phtml interview] with Ron D. Moore, Boomer is not dead. When Cally shot "Boomer" Valerii, ''Galactica'' was close enough to one of the Cylon ships near Kobol that her consciousness was downloaded into another body. [[Downloaded|The episode]] dealing with Boomer's transferred "soul" be shown later in Season 2.}}
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| == Caprica Copy == | | == Caprica Copy == |
| [[Image:Cshva.jpg|thumb|"Caprica Valerii" (credit: Sky One / Sci-Fi Channel)]]
| | ''See the article [[Sharon Valerii (Caprica copy)]]'' |
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| When [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] is left on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] use him in an elaborate experiment. Key to this experiment is another copy of Valerii, with copies of [[Aaron Doral]] and [[Number Six|Six]] acting as overseers for the experiment. This second Valerii "rescues" Helo from capture by [[Number Six|Six]] and [[Cylon Centurions]]. Unaware of Valerii's true nature, Helo genuinely believes this Valerii copy to be the "Boomer" he knew from ''Galactica''. Following his rescue, Valerii leads Helo to "her" [[Raptor]], now in the hands of Cylons, convincing him that they have no direct way off of the planet ([[Water]]).
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| Following this, and having received a "Colonial signal" on the radio receiver they are carrying, she leads Helo to a city where they find a fully-equipped "fallout shelter" in which two people can live in reasonable security, hidden from above-ground Cylon operations, and with sufficient supplies to last a considerable period of time ([[Act of Contrition]]).
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| === The Experiment ===
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| The purpose in establishing this "nest" is to be to elicit an emotional response in Helo towards Valerii. When this fails, and he continues to express a desire to get off the planet, the Cylons arrange for Valerii to be "captured", determining that if Helo does not seek to rescue her, the experiment has failed, and he must be killed ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).
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| Following Helo's "rescue" of Valerii, genuine concern and mutual need result in the two having sex ([[Six Degrees of Separation]]), an accomplishment she reports to Doral and Six. A new hideout, a cabin in the woods, is being constructed for Helo and Valerii, and she is instructed to lead him there and have him stay with her - or kill him if he attempts to leave ([[Flesh and Bone]]).
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| Faced with this, and the realization that she has herself fallen in love with Helo, Valerii disobeys her instructions and attempts to lead Helo to [[Delphi]], where they hope to steal a vehicle and get off the planet ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]). On the way to the spaceport, Valerii shows signs of being pregnant: she is sick ([[The Hand of God]]) and develops a ravenous appetite ([[Colonial Day]]).
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| === Helo's Discovery ===
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| On reaching Delphi, Valerii and Helo break into the Cylon facilities to reach the spaceport. When Helo encounters yet another copy of Valerii, he draws the initial conclusion that she is a human clone created by the Cylons, and goes on the run alone ([[Colonial Day]]). When Valerii catches up with him, her emotional condition is so confused that she challenges him to shoot her ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]). Helo is only able to wound her, and takes her with him to use her to somehow get off Caprica. While Helo keeps her at gunpoint, she leads him to the [[Delphi Museum]]. Waiting out a storm in a nearby ruined building, Sharon tells Helo that her love for him is real and that she is pregnant with his child.
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| When she and Helo come across Starbuck, who lands near the museum to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]], Thrace realizes instantly that Valerii is a Cylon and attempts to shoot her. Helo, \ stops Thrace and reveals to her that Valerii is pregnant ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). Starbuck is convinced that Caprica-Valerii must be a Cylon copy of the "real" Sharon on ''Galactica''. Caprica-Valerii tries to convince her that they are both Cylons and both of them is just as "real" as the other, by remembering the first time they met, to no avail.
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| === Valerii and The Resistance ===
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| After Thrace attempts to kill Valerii, she escapes in Thrace's Cylon Raider to save the life of her unborn child ([[Scattered]]). After tracking them for several days, Valerii returns to Helo and a [[Resistance (movement)|Caprica resistance movement]] to aid them in finding the missing Thrace ([[The Farm]]). Valerii steals a Cylon [[Heavy Raider]] and arrives at the rescue scene to destroy several Centurions and rescue the entire resistance group. Convinced that this Sharon copy can be sufficiently trusted, or at least give useful information on Cylon activity, they allow Valerii to join them as they take the Heavy Raider back to [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]].
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| When Valerii walks aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', [[Lee Adama]] spots her, grabs Valerii and places his gun to her head, obviously angry that another murderous Valerii copy exists. Helo immediately places his gun against Adama's head, but President Roslin urges both men enough to drop their weapons, and orders Valerii to be ejected out the airlock. Valerii pleads for her life, telling Roslin she knows the precise location of the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction's]] objective: The [[Tomb of Athena]]. Roslin reconsiders and places Valerii in the brig. Roslin later confirms that the Cylon is actually working on their side because Valerii wants her child and Helo to remain safe from what Roslin constitutes as a mothering instinct.
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| Valerii accompanies Roslin's party to [[Kobol]]. Valerii recites the specific passages of the Tomb in the scriptures of the [[Sacred Scrolls]] and plots the group's path along a ridge nearby. As priestess [[Elosha]] examines a gravestone marker along the ancient trail, the handcuffed Valerii senses danger but is too late to warn anyone; two "Bouncing Betty"-style antipersonnel mines detonate, killing Elosha. At the same instant, a group of Centurions open fire. As others hide or return fire, Valerii vaults away, with Lee Adama in pursuit, believing she is trying to escape. Valerii scoops up a grenade launcher lying ahead, and just as Lee Adama thinks she is about to shoot him, she aims for the last Centurion and destroys it ([[Home, Part I]]). At camp, Adama and Thrace are perplexed that Helo now still loves Valerii, although he is aware she is a machine.
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| While walking, Valerii casually tells Helo that their child is a girl. Commander Adama's search party arrives at Roslin's camp. The warm reunion of the two leaders and family is intterrupted when Adama sees this second copy of Sharon Valerii. Commander Adama immediately tries to choke her to death. He releases her after experiencing terrible chest pains (probably the result of his recent surgery, or from anxiety), as she says "And you asked 'why'?" (mysteriously referencing what Commander Adama said over the body of the dead body of "Boomer" Valerii).
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| [[Tom Zarek]]'s follower, [[Meier]], tries to convince her to help him kill both Adamas. Valerii believed her ''Galactica'' counterpart was being held in the [[brig]], but Meier informs her that she was killed. She expresses her outrage to Helo that Cally killed Boomer with only a minor punishment. Valerii deduces that the Colonials don't see humanoid Cylons are people; she is a thing they may destroy once they no longer need her. Valerii pretends to take up Meier's proposal to kill Commander Adama and Lee Adama, but after they all draw their weapons, she shoots Meier instead, saving the lives of both Adamas. She announces to Commander Adama that she is not the same Sharon that shot him, and that she is not a sleeper agent with hidden protocols waiting to activate; she makes her own choices. She surrenders the weapon to Commander Adama, to everyone's surprise.
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| === The Cooperative Cylon ===
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| Subsequently, Valerii is brought aboard battlestar ''[[Galactica]]'' and imprisoned in a new reinforced cell designed to incarcerate the copy of Sharon known as "Boomer." [[Number Six]] tells Dr. Baltar that Valerii's baby will be born in that cell. Number Six considers Valerii's and Helo's biological child to be hers; she says that she will be its "mother" and Baltar will be it's "father" ([[Home, Part II]]).
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| While in her cell Valerii nearly has a miscarriage, and is rushed to [[Sickbay]] where Dr. [[Cottle]] succeeds in saving the fetus. [[D'anna Biers]], a reporter for the Fleet News Service, stumbles upon Valerii while filming her documentary in Sickbay. D'anna threatens to expose that Adama is harboring a Cylon aboard ''Galactica'', but he confiscated what he believed was Biers' tape of Valerii. In reality, D'anna secretly switches tapes and keeps the real one. This critical information was not broadcast in the final cut of her documentary distributed to the Fleet, but it was broadcast back to other Cylons on Caprica (by way of two Raiders that attacked ''Galactica'' in order to get within transmission range). The Cylons on Caprica (including another copy of D'anna and yet another Valerii copy) are surprised yet overjoyed that Helo's Valerii is still alive (they are apparently unaware that she had survived). They are incredibly concerned that her hybrid child survives, saying that it must be protected at all costs ([[Final Cut]]).
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| When ''Galactica'' experiences mysterious computer failures and system malfunctions from yet another Cylon virus, Commander Adama orders Helo to show the incarcerated Valerii the strange Cylon code. Valerii identifies it as a very virulent [[Logic bomb]] that will take control of the ship and kill off the crew if she does not help. Reluctantly, on advice from President Roslin, Commander Adama brings Valerii to [[CIC]], where Valerii cuts her arm open and connects her body to a fiber optic line to communicate with ''Galactica's'' mainframe [[Computers|computer]] and communication channels. The process is painful both to Valerii and to the crew watching the spectacle. With Valerii now with access, she takes into her a portion of the logic bomb code, then instructs Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] to wipe the hard drives of the system computers to erase all Cylon virus traces for good. ''Galactica'' is a sitting duck to a massive Cylon fighter force on the outskirts of [[DRADIS]] range while Valerii makes adjustments to the code. She resends the code out on the communication channels to the Cylon fleet. In a reversal of the events suffered by the Colonials in the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|holocaust]], every Cylon fighter loses power and weapons. Adama's Vipers have a [[Great Cylon Turkey Shoot|free-for-all shooting]], destroying every Cylon fighter without a single Colonial casualty ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).
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| === The Cylon "Interrogator" ===
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| After ''Galactica'' reunites with battlestar ''Pegasus'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] sends Lieutenant [[Alistair Thorne]] to inspect the incarcerated Valerii. He beats her and attempts to sexually assault her while his guards watch. Fortunately for Valerii, both Agathon and Tyrol find out about Thorne and what was done to his previous [[Number Six#Gina|prisoner]] and arrive in time to stop him. Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process, and both Agathon and Tyrol are arrested by the ''Pegasus'' guards and taken to Cain's battlestar, where a summary court-martial leaves Agathon and Tyrol pending execution by Admiral Cain. Commander Adama sends a [[Marines|Marine]] force and his Viper squadrons out and tells to Cain over [[wireless]] that he is getting his men. Valerii and all of the fleet await news on the survival of her "past" and current love as a standoff between the battlestars begins ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]). Valerii's attempted rape results in a hairline fracture in one of her ribs and minor bruising. Still in shock for the incident, Commander Adama personally appologizes to Valerii that it happened aboard his ship (([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).
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| Valerii is happy to see that both Helo and Tyrol have been released after Adama resumes full command of the Fleet ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]). Weeks later, President Roslin, on her deathbed, recommends that Valerii's fetus be aborted, fearing dire consequences for the Fleet. On hearing this news, Helo is terrified, but Valerii, having cooperated fully to aid the Fleet both to save herself, her child, and to show that not all Cylons are dangerous, is enraged. Marines sent to inspect her and later to take her to [[sickbay]] for the procedure are forced to restrain the angry Cylon. At the last minute (spurred by threats from his virtual [[Number Six]]), it is [[Gaius Baltar]] who learns of an astonishing ability of the fetal blood of Valerii's baby: it destroys cancer cells. Taking a small blood sample, he injects it into the dying Laura Roslin. Moments later, her cancer is "gone", according to Dr. [[Cottle]]. The abortion procedure is cancelled. The recovering Roslin visits Valerii in her cell and smiles at the sight of Valerii stroking her belly, just as a human female would ([[Epiphanies]]).
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| === Future episodes ===
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| {{spoiltext|According to an [http://www.thefandom.com/Article50.phtml interview] with RDM, Caprica-Sharon's pregnancy storyline will come to a 'conclusion' by the end of season 2. Also, during the early episodes of the second half of season 2, the ''Galactica'' crew will debate whether or not they should force her to have an abortion rather than allow the Cylon's experiment to conclude and possibly pose a threat to them.}}
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